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Excavations at the prehistoric site of ‘Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley, south of the Sea of Galilee, in images shared in April 2024. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
February 22, 2026, 5:00 pm
New study puts hominins in Israel 1.9 million years ago, rewriting earliest human migration
Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct groups of human ancestors left Africa at roughly the same time
By Rossella Tercatin
AI reconstruction of a mixed Neanderthal-Homo sapiens family.
August 20, 2025, 6:00 am
Study: Homo Sapiens procreated with Neanderthals 100,000 years earlier than thought
Israeli-French research applies new techniques to a fossilized child’s skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds physical characteristics of both types of humans
By Sue Surkes
Tinshemet Cave, a Middle Paleolithic site in central Israel, during excavations. (Yossi Zaidner)
March 11, 2025, 4:27 pm
Sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted in prehistoric Israel, rare cave burials show
Using dentists’ tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared rituals and knowledge, and possibly lived in harmony
By Rossella Tercatin
Historian, professor and author Yuval Noah Harari. (Courtesy)
March 23, 2022, 7:27 pm
Yuval Noah Harari to publish middle grade book series
Penguin Random House says first volume of ‘Unstoppable Us’ series, subtitled ‘How Humans Took Over the World,’ will come out on October 18
By AP
This undated image provided by Tel Aviv University in June 2021 shows a virtual reconstruction of a human ancestor mandible found in Nesher Ramla. (Ariel Pokhojaev, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University via AP)
June 24, 2021, 9:01 pm
Fossils found in Israel are ‘last survivors’ of ‘missing’ type of extinct humans
Researchers say ‘Nesher Ramla Homo’ may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for over 100,000 years, and may have interbred with our species
By CHRISTINA LARSON
Illustrative: A skull of Homo sapiens, al-Kafza cave, Middle Paleolithic Period, ca. 85,000 years ago. (Courtesy Israel Museum)
September 23, 2020, 2:47 pm
‘Sapiens’ graphic novel coming out in October
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s wildly popular work on the origins and nature of humanity will be made accessible to readers who don’t gravitate to science books
By Marcy Oster
IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 22, 2020, 3:52 pm
Fossils show 1st intrepid humans left Africa 200,000 years ago for an icy Israel
Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents alongside remains of region’s 1st modern humans shows they arrived from hot cradle of Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari lecturing at the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum in Hangzhou, China, July 9, 2017. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images, via JTA)
July 12, 2018, 6:15 am
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ to get screen adaptation
Director Ridley Scott, documentarian Asif Kapadia will work together to bring bestselling book on origins of humanity to life
By ToI Staff
This image provided by the Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India in January 2018 shows a sample of artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic era found at the Attirampakkam archaeological site in southern India (Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu/Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India via AP)
February 1, 2018, 4:09 am
Stone tools in India suggest earlier human exit from Africa
Following Israeli jawbone discovery, new report shows Homo sapiens may have existed in Asia as far back as 385,000 years ago — though some experts are doubtful
By AP and ToI Staff
Undated artist rendering shows two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils (Philipp Gunz/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology via AP)
June 8, 2017, 2:05 am
Homo sapiens 100,000 years older than thought
Groundbreaking fossil discovery in Morocco sheds light on origin of our species, may re-organize the human evolutionary tree
By Laurence COUSTAL and Mariëtte Le Roux
The lower limbs of a Neanderthal exposed at the open-air site of Ein Qashish, on the banks of the Kishon River in northern Israel. (Erella Hovers, courtesy, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
June 7, 2017, 2:28 pm
Who are you calling a caveman? Israeli study finds Neanderthals had versatile habitats
Analysis of remains from 60,000 years ago found at Ein Qashish questions a bedrock narrative of humanity’s ancestors
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An image taken on September 15, 2016, shows the site of excavations near Tozeur, in southwestern Tunisia, where Tunisian and British researchers say they have unearthed Stone Age tools showing humans lived in the area nearly 100,000 years ago. (AFP PHOTO / AYMEN ZAOUALI)
September 16, 2016, 4:28 pm
Tunisian remains prove 100,000-year human presence
Researchers says Stone Age tools found at site could help explain spread of Homo sapiens
By AFP
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